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A distraught Russian father has recounted his horror at watching his son mauled to death by a ‘meat grinder’ tiger shark at an Egyptian resort while yelling: ‘Dad, save me!’ Yury Popov was forced to watch helplessly from the shore as the predator circled his 23-year-old son Vladimir Popov before dragging him underwater at the resort of Hurghada in an attack that he said lasted 20 seconds.

Tourists scrambled out of the water as horrified onlookers yelled for Vladimir to swim away from the shark before he was mauled to death. The tiger shark was then captured and washed ashore by boat before being killed.

“We went to the beach to relax,” Popov, originally from Russia, told news outlet 112. “My son was attacked by a shark, it all happened in seconds.” The heartbroken father said there were no family members near his son to help him in the water, although initial reports said the 23-year-old’s girlfriend had managed to flee the attack.

‘What kind of help can you give? This meat grinder happened in 20 seconds, it was just pulled under water,” Popov said. The father said: ‘This is an absolutely ridiculous coincidence, because it is a safe beach. There are boats and yachts around. It has never happened there. They usually attack on wild beaches. It’s just some kind of evil fate.

Vladimir had been living with his father in Egypt for several months before the horrific attack. Popov said that he would cremate his son and return her ashes to his native Russia. Video shows the tiger shark caught and washed ashore by a boat after the attack, and it appeared to be alive before it was beaten to death.

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Vladimir Popov was mauled to death by a ‘meat grinder’ tiger shark

The Egyptian authorities confirmed that the shark has been handed over for the causes of its behavior to be investigated and to identify if the animal is related to one that “caused several previous accidents.”

Video taken by horrified onlookers shows Vladimir desperately yelling ‘Dad, Dad’ as the predator circled him in the water before launching its attack. The 23-year-old can be seen desperately trying to swim to shore to no avail. His body is seen spinning in the water and his legs are raised above the surface. Nothing far, nothing far! Fast! A shark!’ People can be heard screaming in the video.

Soon the splashing in the water ceases and the man’s head returns to the surface. He seems to be moving in the water again but slowly. He can be heard yelling ‘Dad’, pleading for help, as the water turns red. The shark’s body is clearly visible on the surface at this time, and its fin and tail are visible as it circles the victim.

The shark turns again to attack and charges at the victim before tightening its jaws around it and submerging it underwater. The man’s head appears above the water for the last time, and the shark’s body is seen writhing in the ocean as it appears to mutilate the body and drag it deeper into the water.

A witness said: ‘The shark is eating the remains of him now. There she is, eating the remains of her. Another said: ‘Right in front of my eyes, the shark ate the boy, the girl [the girlfriend] managed to escape. She got hit by the shark. ‘It is a terrible thing, the remains of this man lie there.’ “Children swam [in the area where the shark attacked] very often, there were slides for children,” said another witness.

‘All this happened not far from a descent into the sea, next to the ladder, used by all who went into the water. ‘At one point, the shark appeared and immediately bit this man. Rescuers saw this and began to start the boat. He tried to swim away from the shark, but couldn’t. And the shark dragged the body for two hours. He was constantly dragged under water.

Witnesses said the victim’s girlfriend was in the water at the time of the attack. Russian reports say that she is safe and has returned to Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of a citizen from a shark attack. The 23-year-old is not the first victim to be killed by a shark at the resort. guests warned Egyptian lifeguards about sharks and their warnings were mocked.

The complex is a 30-minute drive from Hurghada, where Vladimir was killed. A second woman, identified only as a Romanian citizen in her 40s, is believed to have been killed in a similar attack just 650 feet from where Ms Sauer died, with her badly disfigured remains found on a nearby reef the same day. .

Sauer lost an arm and a leg in an attack that was caught on video as bystanders tried to distract the shark to safety. She reached the shore with the help of a flipper, but died a short time later. Reports at the time – from news agency AFP and Austrian news outlets – pointed to the attack being committed by a Mako shark, while local Egyptian newspapers named the animal as an Oceanic whitetip shark.Read More……